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Measuring industry agglomeration and identifying the driving forces

Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2012

Understanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration. We propose a new measure and examine what it reveals about the importance of...

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ICT Intermediates, Growth and Productivity SpilloversEvidence from Comparison of Growth Effects inGerman and US Manufacturing Sectors

Strobel, Thomas - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2012

Recent pre-crisis growth accounting exercises attribute strong productivity growth toincreased investments in information and communication technologies (ICT), especiallyduring the mid-1990s. EU-wide stylized facts about a growing US–EU productivity gapare confirmed for Germany, particularly...

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How Does the Productivity of Foreign Direct Investment Spill Over to Local Firms in Chinese Manufacturing?

Blake, Adam - 2009

investment (FDI) to local firms. The spillover channels considered include inter-firm labour turnover/mobility; vertical input …

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Establishment Productivity Convergence and the Effect of Foreign Ownership at the Frontier

Klein, Michael A. - 2018

I estimate establishment level total factor productivity (TFP) convergence using panel data from India's manufacturing sector from 2001-2015. I examine the presence of foreign owned establishments within each industry's productivity frontier, and allow for the speed of productivity convergence...

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Does FDI Spur Innovation, Productivity and Knowledge Sourcing by Incumbent Firms? Evidence from Manufacturing Industry in Estonia

Vahter, Priit - 2010

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia's manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … of FDI entry on local incumbents' TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does …

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Wage gains from foreign ownership : evidence from linked employer - employee data

Köllo, János; Boza, István; Balázsi, László - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1/3, pp. 1-21

We compare the wages of skilled workers in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE peers affects the wages of domestic firm employees. The analysis relies on...

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Does FDI Spur Innovation, Productivity and Knowledge Sourcing by Incumbent Firms? Evidence from Manufacturing Industry in Estonia

Vahter, Priit - 2010

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia’s manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does …

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Does FDI Spur Innovation, Productivity and Knowledge Sourcing by Incumbent Firms? Evidence from Manufacturing Industry in Estonia

Vahter, Priit - 2010

Does FDI affect innovation, productivity growth, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia’s manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … effect of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. However, there are positive …

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Is Hiring Foreign Worth It? Spillover from Foreign Firms’ Human Capital and Local Firms’ Productivity

Pyun, Ju Hyun; Sun, Jong-in - 2022

We examine the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms’ productivity via human capital transfer from … from MNEs due to the Republic of Korea’s visa regulations. We find that the industry and regional FDI positively affect … spillover from FDI is also more pronounced in high R&D-intensive industries. Our results are robust with various measures of …

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Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Acquisitions and Plant Performance in Indonesia

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2005

foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, a difference …

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